Jack Lechelt:
CLASS OF 1987
Edison High SchoolClass of 1987
Edison, NJ
Jack's Story
Jack is from Leesburg, Virginia. Jack is married with Melissagale Lechelt. Jack's schools include Edison High School. Jack later attended George Mason University (American History), Kean University (Political Science). Jack works(ed) at NOVA Northern Virginia Community College.
Music Jack likes includes Ultimate 80's Fan Page, Baby Anne, Jennifer Lopez. Books Jack likes include The Millionaire Fastlane, We Don't Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy, Harriet Beecher Stowe. Movies Jack likes include Love Actually, Best of Enemies, Talladega Nights. TV shows Jack likes include Me-TV, Goliath, Taking Fire.
One of Jack's favorite quotes is:"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
- Derek Bok
Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched, - criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by those led, - this is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society.
- WEB DuBois
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.
- Thomas Jefferson.
I have never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Difficulties break some men but make others.
- Nelson Mandela
If a man is a fool, the best thing is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
- Woodrow Wilson
No child can be blamed because he was born in the midst of squalor, poverty, and ignorance, but society is criminal if it permits him to grow up without proper efforts for ameliorating his condition.
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
I don't know how to put this but I'm kind of a big deal. ... People know me. ... I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.
- Ron Burgundy
...Blind nationalism should never replace informed participation. True Americans ... remembered that theirs was a land of social and political diversity, with a republican system at root committed to a fair hearing for dissent...
- Karen Sawislak, in Smoldering City, quoting a German immigrant activist after the Great Fire of Chicago
I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged.
- Thomas Jefferson
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela
If they are good workmen, they may be from Asia, Africa or Europe; they may be Mahometans, Jews, Christians of any sect, or they may be Atheists.
- George Washington
Can I refill your eggnog for you? Get you something to eat? Drive you out to the middle of nowhere and leave you for dead?
- C. Griswald
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ent, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be on a small one.
- Horace Mann
He who warned, uh, the British that they weren't going to be taking away our arms uh by ringing those bells and making sure as he's riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free and we were going to be armed.
- Momentary governor, Sarah Palin
State a moral case to a ploughman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.
- T. Jefferson
Personal philosophy? Clothing optional.
- C.M. Michaels
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
- Frederick Douglass
I would permit no man to drag down my soul by making me hate him.
- Booker T. Washington
OK, first off: a lion, swimming in the ocean. Lions don't like water. If you placed it near a river or some sort of fresh water source, that make sense. But you find yourself in the ocean, 20 foot wave, I'm assuming off the coast of South Africa, coming up against a full grown 800 pound tuna with his 20 or 30 friends, you lose that battle, you lose that battle 9 times out of 10. And guess what, you've wandered into our school of tuna and we now have a taste of lion. We've talked to ourselves. We've communicated and said 'You know what, lion tastes good, let's go get some more lion'. We've developed a system to establish a beach-head and aggressively hunt you and your family and we will corner your pride, your children, your offspring.
We will construct a series of breathing apparatus with kelp. We will be able to trap certain amounts of oxygen. It's not gonna be days at a time. An hour? Hour forty-five? No problem. That will give us enough time to figure out where you live, go back to the sea, get some more oxygen, and stalk you. You just lost at your own game. You're outgunned and out-manned.
Did that go the way you thought it was gonna go? Nope.
- A. Gamble
Any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should "have his head examined," as General MacArthur so delicately put it.
- Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates (25 Feb 2011)
Controversy equalizes wise men and fools, and the fools know it.
- Oliver Wendell Homes
CMM: The night is a dark time for me.
JM: The night is dark for everyone, moron!
CMM: Not for Alaskans and dudes with night vision goggles.
You have the voice of an angel. Your voice is like a combination of Fergie and Jesus.
- D. Doback
Everybody love everybody.
- J. Moon
It is hard for us, without being flippant, to even see a scenario within any kind of realm of reason that would see us losing one dollar in any of those transactions.
- Joseph J. Cassano, former AIG executive, August 2007 (NYT, 09-28-08)".
More about Jack:"Flamboyantly pushing the limits of conformity. But always staying on the safe side of the line so as not to draw too much attention.
I once dated a bear.".
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